For light, this is on the scale of tens of thousandths of a millimetre.
Nevada, with 45 ten-thousandths of a percent, had the highest gun murder rate per population.
The entire reindeer team will be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Like the oxygen ions in the traditional technique, these come to rest a few thousandths of a millimetre below the surface.
If fired at high enough speed, these ions will come to rest a few thousandths of a millimetre below a wafer's surface.
In this case, though, the angle through which the axes will precess is predicted to be a mere two-thousandths of a degree.
"That makes a huge difference when you're talking about thousandths of a second separating one speed from another, " said one former Daytona 500 competitor.
Working out whether this has been done satisfactorily is hard when the objects in question are a mere six thousandths of a millimetre in diameter.
Viewed from a distance of ten light-years, the sun's side-to-side wobble due to Jupiter causes its position to change by 1.6 thousandths of an arcsecond.
High-speed trading has made the financial world even more of a casino game, allowing traders to pick off minuscule price movements in just thousandths of a second.
When there are lots of nucleation centres around, the small drops end up even smaller than usual (ten thousandths of a millimetre, or microns, across, instead of 50 microns).
Alonso lost out on pole to Sebastian Vettel at Hockenheim by a scant two-thousandths of a second and the car was, if anything, slightly faster than the Red Bull in the race.
Only five-10-thousandths of what the company claimed the pills contained on the packaging was in a serving of Disney and Marvel Complete tablets for children ages 2 to 4, court documents filed by the FTC alleged.
The parts--as large as 2 feet on a side and accurate within five-thousandths of an inch (about twice the diameter of a human hair)--give more substance to sales pitches and reveal flaws earlier in a product's design.
That would give it a resolution of a few thousandths of an arc-second enough, were this an optical rather than a radio telescope, to see a boulder just a few metres across on the surface of the moon.
The Germans and other allies wish to sell the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations machine tools with the capability of producing, for example, advanced aviation components with an accuracy of plus-or-minus five microns (two ten-thousandths of an inch) or better.
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